[BusyBox] Busybox and setuid

Chris Kottaridis chriskot at quietwind.net
Mon Aug 22 21:15:20 UTC 2005


> We have some infrastructure that drops root automatically for things that 
> don't need it, if you enable suid support.  Happens before the applet itself 
> actually gets run, I believe.  (Applets are tagged based on whether or not 
> they need root access in one of the .h files.)
> 
> Rob

Well, this certainly seems like the "rightest" answer. Is this currently
part of the busybox 1.0 release or is it something being worked on for a
future release ?

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Chris Kottaridis <chriskot at quietwind.net>



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